So what are the major tourist and travel sites to visit when one heads down to South Africa?

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You've got to visit Cape TOwn. It's a really interesting place.

The safari-- it could be the best adventure of your life!

Major Sites have to be:-

Kruger National Park
Cape Town, (table mountain, great white diving, wine tasting, cape peninsular)
The Garden Route (running from George to close to Cape Town)
Bungee Jumping at Bloukrans Bridge (highest in the world 216 m !!)
Tsitsikamma rain forest (tree top safari on zip wires 30 m off the ground)
Surfing in Durban
Drakensburg mountains

The list is endless !!

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Absolutely all of those ... and more! It depends on how much time you have and what you like doing. If you're into nature and a carefree, hippy-type then Port St Johns and the Wild Coast regions (e.g Coffee Bay) are a must-see. For culture types there are the World Heritage sites at Maropeng and Sterkfontein Caves. My favorite trip, as a local, was doing a 10 day guided minibus tour along the garden route via Tsitsikamma, Knysna, Oudtshoorn (think Cango Caves & wildlife reserve), Aliwal Spa, Drakensberg and Howick to Durban. Brilliant!!

This was one of the highlights of my trip in Africa, although we sat in the Angels Armchair (which could actually be Devil's Pool too). We waded out to the "pool" and hopped in, there is a rock ledge about 1/2 metre wide that stops you floating over....you can only do this at a certain times of year when the water ilevel is lower and water is not flowing so hard.

Sitting there leaning over and looking down the falls was just amazing. You can see people on the Zimbabwe side looking at you, because all they can see is your heads bobbing in the water!

And yes I would do it again.....(I also bunjied that day so a daredevil day for me)

it guess that you are an animal lover persona. am i right.

the wildlife in south africa

South Africa is really a gr8 place. There are beach's for every season and every reason. which makes it a special place. Then u should go to Cape Town it is really a beautiful city it has The mountains, the waterfronts, the wine land & having the attractions like whale watching. Then u should move to the Durban here u will find the gr8 night life’s & Pubs, bars which u are not going to get anywhere in the world. There is a problem of finding accommodation so u should book ur accommodation first before going. I had booked from calculatemytrip.com & i felt it was ok so u should also go for some online site for booking